What was the best internet era? 2000-2010, 2010-2014 or the current era?

When the Internet was exciting. When finding a new website felt like an another step of an adventure. Finding Newgrounds, Miniclip, Wikipedia etc. Finding a fan site of a band/video game/book/anime you liked. Having great talks with total strangers, finally finding people who share you niche taste.

Nowadays you open your browser and visit the 5-6 couple websites you like/tolerate. You are here because its still nice to have an anonymity. You don't need to pretend to like/dislike something because thats the norm.

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Around 2005, it's been getting progressively worse since then.

2010-2014 would be mine, but the 2000-2006 point had some really good points as well

>summer school 2004
>left to ourselves in the library
>Teacher not paying any attention
>Everyone knows how to get around the school filter
>Flash games time!
>glad to be using a computer that wasn't made in '94
>kid next to me is watching a video
>man in orange jumpsuit surrounded by arabs getting his throat cut

whenever youtube-esque porn sites came out. probably youporn was first

1996-2000
free internet
no bullshit
no fags

2006-2012

maplestory.

>tfw you never did see all the top 100 anime and game sites

2003.45 - 2012.16

2005-2010 easily
>internet accessible but not ultra mainstream
>amazon, ebay, and private forums are RC wild west
>watch copyrighted material straight from youtube
>actually good games
>never ending performance upgrades at reasonable prices
>motherless was still good
take me back T_T

03-09
peak zerodays

yeah 21012 was one of the last years where I still liked content well enough everything after that has been milquetoast.

2017-now.
The old internet is still accessible (obscure web pages, ircs (although they are migrating to telegram)) and it is easy to get in touch with everyone. I'm not sure if it would be so easy to get so much information and support in the internet few years ago.

2004 - 2012

bitch, are you dumb-d-dumb-dumb-dumb-d-dumb-dumb-dumb? (Stupid)

This.

2004-2006 was peak

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I'd say 2002 until early Youtube. Back then people actually used forums, and there were active formus about anything, and while some of them were shitholes, others were damn good. The sweetest spot was finding forums about niche interests without drops of flamewars or autism.

Cute couple.

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I feel like animutations were the genesis of low-effort MS-Paint shitposting.

Current era.
While the massive lowering of the average IQ and the rise of populism makes social interaction pretty shitty compared to the intellectual utopia of the early internet, the quality and quantity of other content available is much higher.

>2000-2010, 2010-2014
Those aren't a thing. The actual diving line is Real Names™. It started in the mid to late 2000s when Facebook began to swallow up everything. Small forum communities, as faggy as they had been, were absorbed, and then IM. Simultaneously normalfags, moralfags and SJWs flooded the interweb. Suddenly the netiquette, if I may use that word, flipped from "don't reveal your name and location" to "you are a coward if you don't doxx yourself!!1." It was symbolically complete when YouTube did pic related. What faggots. Nevar forget that anyone who is against anonymity and pseudonymity on the Internet wants to know your name to harm you.

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Usenet.